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Salman Rushdie Quotes

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian
Birth: June 19, 1947

Topics

Insecurity Perfect Security Only

To be completely honest, I don't believe that Palin has any intention of actually running for president. Granted, trying to predict Sarah Palin's next move is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.

Believe Trying Intention Wall Honest

If your manager is one that isn't engaged with your career development by offering frequent advice and guidance, it's time to look for greener pastures.

Time Advice Look Career Manager

I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighbourhood' - there's a lot of that record that's about childhood.

Fire Childhood Listening Wake Up Up

When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

School College Organization You

You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.

People You Know Want Something Give

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

Home Children Responsibility Child

Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and that unless we take conscious measures, we'll permanently be out of breath.

Moving Fast Human Out Anything Take

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

Guitar Write Piano Read Percussion

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.

Work Doing Never Project Started

I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.

Life Family Moment Bad House Burn

'Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity.

Nature Think Humanity Human Without

The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Law Security Resolutions Principles

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